Top 71 Generalize Quotes
#1. Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#2. Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.
Mark Twain
#3. My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.
James Ensor
#4. It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
Walter Jon Williams
#5. To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.
Angela Harris
#6. Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
Larry Wall
#7. Be careful of people who generalize to lure large crowds for ANY reason ...
Garrett McCoy
#8. Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#9. Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz
#10. The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.
Jos. A. Smith
#11. It's impossible to generalize about sexuality - even one's own. The only way to keep it pure is to keep it unspoken. Keep it out of words. Words are not where sexuality lives. Without privacy, there is no ecstasy.
Erica Jong
#12. I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.
Dave Barry
#13. And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
Frederic Bastiat
#14. I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.
Vladimir Nabokov
#15. I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
Sabrina Bryan
#16. I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
Gloria Steinem
#17. Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
Karrine Steffans
#18. I don't like to generalize, but if you see a guy with his shirt tucked into his shorts, he's probably killed three or four children.
Dana Gould
#19. Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
Hermann Weyl
#20. It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
Kate Christensen
#21. I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.
Michael K. Williams
#22. An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#23. To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.
Guy Deutscher
#24. You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
Mark Twain
#25. Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
Ben Silbermann
#26. So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Henry Louis Gates
#27. To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.
Jorge Luis Borges
#28. Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this
tendency.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#29. If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.
Kevin Kwan
#30. I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
Gloria Steinem
#32. If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.
Dolores Hitchens
#33. I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.
Gish Jen
#34. As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of them. People who generalize are mentally ill.
Milton Rokeach
#35. the availability heuristic. We draw on what is readily available as truth and generalize this information as knowledge.
Deborah L. Plummer
#36. If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.
Wendy Kaminer
#37. Why, I wondered, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth? That period of life when every sorrow seems permanent and every setback insuperable.
Vera Brittain
#38. It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.
Jacki Weaver
#39. I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.
Edwidge Danticat
#40. It's hard to generalize about that subject because the women I've worked with have all been so different. But if there's one consistency, it might be that you do have to handle yourself differently on a set. Women can be more emotional - at least they sometimes show it more.
Kristen Stewart
#41. Yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.
Edmund Blair Bolles
#42. It came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.
Mary McCarthy
#43. I definitely don't generalize and put everybody in the same cup of water.
Cole Hauser
#44. You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.
Lorin Stein
#45. There's this powerful phrase in the legal world, "Difficult cases make bad law." The exception is the difficult case. You can't generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don't solve any problem because they're so one of a kind.
Malcolm Gladwell
#46. To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
Rudolph Valentino
#47. It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
Margot Asquith
#48. Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
D.H. Lawrence
#49. What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.
Nikki Reed
#50. I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.
Matt Bomer
#51. I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.
Idris Elba
#52. We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.
James Stockdale
#53. [Stephenson] believes that, as research becomes more airborne and more office-bound, we generalize more and more, and we lose the vast range of wolf experience; in fact, there are soft wolves and hard wolves, kind wolves and malicious wolves, soldiers and nurses, philosophers and bullies.
Peter Steinhart
#54. I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
David Biespiel
#55. We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer
#56. I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.
Ezra Koenig
#57. Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil.
E. M. Forster
#58. Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.
David Richo
#59. I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not - are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.
Gerald Stern
#60. Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.
Francis Crick
#61. I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline.
Howard Rheingold
#62. Women have been the most intelligent, peaceful and positive influences in my life, I don't want to generalize too much, but definitely in my experience, I've found the whole macho world of male aggression and insecurity to be a lot more difficult to exist in.
Zayn Malik
#63. There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity.
Neil Young
#64. To generalize is to be an idiot, said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities are the lenses with which our intellects have to manage.
C.S. Lewis
#66. Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.
Robert B. Parker
#68. To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
William Blake
#69. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.
Margaret Hamburg
#71. All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
Henry Louis Gates
